A TRIBUTE TO VETERANS (song)

In Vietnam, Korea and World Wars past
Our men fought bravely so freedom would last
Conditions were not always best they could be
Fighting a foe you could not always see:

From mountain highs to valley lows
From jungle drops to desert patrols

Our sinewy sons were sent over seas
Far from their families and far from their dreams
They never wrote letters of hardships despair
Only of love, yearning that one day soon:

They would come home, they would resume
And carry on with the rest of their lives

The P.O.W.'s stood steadfast
Against the indignities and cruelties of war
They could not have lasted as long as they did
If they had relinquished their hope that some day:

They would come home, they would resume
And carry on the rest of their lives

Medics, nurses, and chaplains alike
Did what they needed to bring back life
They served our forces from day into night
Not questioning if they would survive:

They mended bones and bodies too,
They soothed the spirits of dying souls

And for those M.I.A'S, who were left behind
We echo this message across the seas
We will search for as long as it takes
You're not forgotten and will always be:

In our hearts, in our prayers,
In our minds for all time

A moment of silence, a moment of summons
Is their deliverance of body and soul
To a sacred place that we all know
Deep in the shrines of our soul:
In our hearts, in our prayers
In our minds for all time